{"id":113561,"date":"2020-09-29T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T18:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/discovery-enables-adult-skin-to-regenerate-like-a-newborns"},"modified":"2020-09-29T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T18:22:21","slug":"discovery-enables-adult-skin-to-regenerate-like-a-newborns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/discovery-enables-adult-skin-to-regenerate-like-a-newborns","title":{"rendered":"Discovery enables adult skin to regenerate like a newborn\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-enables-adult-skin-to-regenerate-like-a-newborns2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly identified genetic factor allows adult skin to repair itself like the skin of a newborn babe. The discovery by Washington State University researchers has implications for better skin wound treatment as well as preventing some of the aging process in skin.<\/p>\n<p>In a study, published in the journal <i>eLife<\/i> on Sept. 29, the researchers identified a factor that acts like a molecular switch in the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/skin\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">skin<\/a> of baby mice that controls the formation of hair follicles as they develop during the first week of life. The switch is mostly turned off after skin forms and remains off in adult tissue. When it was activated in specialized cells in adult mice, their skin was able to heal wounds without scarring. The reformed skin even included fur and could make goose bumps, an ability that is lost in adult human scars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were able to take the innate ability of young, neonatal skin to regenerate and transfer that ability to old skin,\u201d said Driskell, an assistant professor in WSU\u2019s School of Molecular Biosciences. \u201cWe have shown in principle that this kind of regeneration is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly identified genetic factor allows adult skin to repair itself like the skin of a newborn babe. The discovery by Washington State University researchers has implications for better skin wound treatment as well as preventing some of the aging process in skin. In a study, published in the journal eLife on Sept. 29, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}